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A biosafety level is the level of the biocontainment precautions required to isolate dangerous biological agents in an enclosed facility. The levels of containment range from the lowest biosafety level 1 to the highest at level 4. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have specified these levels.[1] In the European Union, the same biosafety levels are defined in a directive.[2]
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia. Currently operates in two buildings. One of two facilities in the world that officially hold smallpox.
George Mason University Biomedical Research Laboratory
This facility is currently under construction on a 10-acre (40,000 m2) site adjacent to George Mason University's Prince William Campus. It is scheduled to be fully operational in the Spring of 2010.
National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC)
Under construction, it will be operated for the Department of Homeland Security.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Located on the NIH Campus, it currently only operates with BSL-3 agents.
US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)
New building, currently under design construction
National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
Facility to be operated by the Department of Homeland Security, and replace the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Planned to be operational by 2014.
University of California, Berkeley
The UC Berkeley BSL3 Facility is currently housed in a single location but will be expanded in 2011 to include a second site (in a building under construction).
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
The only privately-owned BSL-4 lab in the US.
Originally posted by NoRegretsEver
There was a of course diseases that have easily wipes out civilizations. Some that of course have been under control, and others... well not so much, but they are not always mentioned.
Due to the fact that we were recently at Pandemic Level 6 (The highest it goes), and have now been lowered to a 3.
I found it fascinating that the Epidemic Monitoring System of RSOE-EDIS, many of you know this site, has changed what it monitors as such.
The H1N1 monitoring has stopped. This service will be monitoring to as the Biolevel2, Biolevel3, Biolevel4, and Unusual Diseases and Unidentified Diseases.
www.idemc.org...
Now due to the fact that this is a monitoring system that gets information from all over the world. Why would they choose this type of monitoring?
Here is some information concerning Bio Safety Level, and what they mean.
A biosafety level is the level of the biocontainment precautions required to isolate dangerous biological agents in an enclosed facility. The levels of containment range from the lowest biosafety level 1 to the highest at level 4. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have specified these levels.[1] In the European Union, the same biosafety levels are defined in a directive.[2]
en.wikipedia.org...
Now due to it stating that it is in an isolated facility, which I would assume means that they have these dangerous disease on the premises. Why would we have a World Wide Monitoring System for them? Unless they think that it can be released to the public.
Of course the U.S. has the most facilities with level 3-4 Bio-level. I will only list those with recent information or new construction.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia. Currently operates in two buildings. One of two facilities in the world that officially hold smallpox.
George Mason University Biomedical Research Laboratory
This facility is currently under construction on a 10-acre (40,000 m2) site adjacent to George Mason University's Prince William Campus. It is scheduled to be fully operational in the Spring of 2010.
National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC)
Under construction, it will be operated for the Department of Homeland Security.
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Located on the NIH Campus, it currently only operates with BSL-3 agents.
US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)
New building, currently under design construction
National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility (NBAF)
Facility to be operated by the Department of Homeland Security, and replace the Plum Island Animal Disease Center. Planned to be operational by 2014.
University of California, Berkeley
The UC Berkeley BSL3 Facility is currently housed in a single location but will be expanded in 2011 to include a second site (in a building under construction).
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research
The only privately-owned BSL-4 lab in the US.
The Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, I am currently looking into.
Before others make the obvious statement, of we need to have these facilities and so on, the purpose of the thread is, when did it become the norm to have a monitoring system available for such lets say, "not out for everyone to see" type of information, especially when right before this began, it was what most were using to monitor for H1N1?
There are many of us that have questions concerning our future well being, and I find it a bit disheartening to see that there is a map that can tell us, and show us, what and where thousands of lives can be taken or changed, due to a facilities like these.
I say sure, lets do our research, there are many things that I know they are learning, or helping others, and thats great, but when you take a site that is to inform of us, of disaster, and death, why would they point out Bio-levels?
There isn't a Bird Flu monitor, or a Hepatitis monitor, there's a Bio-level monitor.
Peace, NRE.
International Disaster and Emergency Monitoring Center
Volcano Activity Report
Service Stopped
The volcano information system has been shut down. Our information source we use has ceased, so the EDIS RSOE own information and monitoring system development has begun.
Residents temporarily evacuated their homes and transportation services were disrupted as smoke continued to billow from the erupting volcano Shinmoedake in the Kirishima range between Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures on Jan. 27. Plumes of smoke rose 2,000 meters following an eruption on Jan. 26, figures from the Kagoshima Local Meteorological Observatory showed. By 9 a.m. the following morning the smoke had fallen to an altitude of 400 meters, but officials said a series of small eruptions were continuing, and called for caution. "The volcanic activity has just started, so we can expect more periods of rest and activity. There's also a chance of a major eruption," an observatory representative said.
A fiery volcano is causing holiday misery for hundreds of Australians with airlines cancelling flights as a large ash cloud floats in the skies above Indonesia. In echoes of last year's Icelandic volcano chaos, the eruption of 2329-metre-high Tengger Caldera, in east Java, led to the cancellation of about a dozen flights and left passengers stranded on Thursday night. Virgin Blue and Jetstar both cancelled flights to and from Denpasar, the main airport serving the popular holiday island of Bali. Jetstar cancelled five flights and diverted another which was already in the air. The budget airline, a subsidiary of the national carrier Qantas, said it would continue to monitor the situation and advise of any additional cancellations. Virgin Blue, at 8pm (AEDT) on Thursday, said all its flights to and from Bali were cancelled for the next 24 hours.
Originally posted by NoRegretsEver
They could tell us anything they wanted, and we would never know.